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cassandra, do you still like it, quickly, on monsanto? >> still like monsanto. we would buy it here. because the long trend remains in place. population in the world is going to continue to grow, and that's the driver because we need seed technology. liz: we need food. okay. let us go straight here and say that there are people who still believe the fiscal cliff is coming, and europe is still a problem, and there's so much -- and i want to remain conservative yet pick sticks -- pick stocks still. how do you go about doing that? >> you pull out a few hairs every morning. [laughter] yes we still have those issues in the backdrop, but you have to look domestically at what is going on, and we seem to have found a bottom in real estate. and so that is now for us a long trend going forward in place. liz: let's go macro and say do you like anything outside of the united states? or do you feel like you want to just nest around here? >> no, we do like things that have exposure outside the united states, but it is not necessarily their hugest percentage of revenue generat
cassandra, do you still like it, quickly, on monsanto? >> still like monsanto. we would buy it here. because the long trend remains in place. population in the world is going to continue to grow, and that's the driver because we need seed technology. liz: we need food. okay. let us go straight here and say that there are people who still believe the fiscal cliff is coming, and europe is still a problem, and there's so much -- and i want to remain conservative yet pick sticks -- pick...
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government has joined or is joined at the hip with monsanto, and pushing gmo's as part of monsanto's engine on the rest of the world. this lays bare the mechanics of that effort. we have >> stapleton, the former ambassador to france, specifically asking u.s. government to retaliate and cause some harm throughout the european union. and in two years later in 2009, we have a cable from the ambassador to spain from the united states, asking for intervention there, asking the government to help formulate a biotech strategy and support the government, members of the government in spain that want to promote gmo's as well. this specifically indicate they sat with the director of monsanto for the region and got briefed by him about the politics of the region and created strategies with and to promote the gmo agenda. >> that was jeffrey smith. michael pollan, your response? >> our government has been promoting monsanto's products and the technology of genetic engineering, both parties have supported this. the democrats early on, remember the era of -- where they would pick out certain issues
government has joined or is joined at the hip with monsanto, and pushing gmo's as part of monsanto's engine on the rest of the world. this lays bare the mechanics of that effort. we have >> stapleton, the former ambassador to france, specifically asking u.s. government to retaliate and cause some harm throughout the european union. and in two years later in 2009, we have a cable from the ambassador to spain from the united states, asking for intervention there, asking the government to...
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alfalfa monsanto g.m.o. sugar beets on santa g.m.o. bt soybean syngenta g.m.o. corn for ethanol pioneer g.m.o. soybeans syngenta g.m.o. bt cotton bayer g.m.o. cotton and g.m.o. papaya strain so how did this happen well one only has to look at who obama has appointed to the very regulatory bodies that are supposed to be responsible for our food safety roger beachy director at the u.s.d.a. is a former director of the month santo danforth center michael taylor is food safety czar is the former vice president monsanto ramona romero a u.s. day counsel was previously on dupont's corporate counsel and the secretary of agriculture tom vilsack was awarded gov of the year by the biotechnology industry organization whose members include monsanto and lastly islams the dickey the u.s. agriculture trade representative who pushes g.m. exports and other countries is a former month's sandow lobbyist now you might be wondering why the revolving door between monsanto and the u.s. government is more visible and that's because the white house has refused to answer for your request d
alfalfa monsanto g.m.o. sugar beets on santa g.m.o. bt soybean syngenta g.m.o. corn for ethanol pioneer g.m.o. soybeans syngenta g.m.o. bt cotton bayer g.m.o. cotton and g.m.o. papaya strain so how did this happen well one only has to look at who obama has appointed to the very regulatory bodies that are supposed to be responsible for our food safety roger beachy director at the u.s.d.a. is a former director of the month santo danforth center michael taylor is food safety czar is the former...
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this is a really big support level for monsanto. they came out, their earnings were a little bit less than what the street was expecting. it looked like their fourth quarter was weak, but it typically is weak. this is a great company, but i think it's a really big inflexion point for them, and i would say wait and see what happens. > > where would you like to purchase this stock if you could? > > below $88, $89 a share. i think the next lot of support is $82 a share. but you know, you're really not going to go wrong with this over the long- term, i believe. you're still getting a pretty decent yield of 1.7%. the fundamentals in agriculture are strong and remain strong, and monsanto is a great, great company. as we've seen, they've had a great run, but they're only a couple dollars off of their 52-week high, so maybe wait and see if it settles in a little bit here. > > how does it compare to another stock, say a potash, which is also in the fertilizer business? > > i think that this is more of a pure play on seeds and a pure play on
this is a really big support level for monsanto. they came out, their earnings were a little bit less than what the street was expecting. it looked like their fourth quarter was weak, but it typically is weak. this is a great company, but i think it's a really big inflexion point for them, and i would say wait and see what happens. > > where would you like to purchase this stock if you could? > > below $88, $89 a share. i think the next lot of support is $82 a share. but you know,...
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as for next year, monsanto told investors seed sales should jump. diane eastabrook has details. >> reporter: analysts say monsanto's fourth quarter earnings took a hit because farmers purchased the bulk of their corn and soybean seeds earlier this year. excluding special items, monsanto lost $.44 a share in the quarter that ended august 31, double what it lost in the same quarter last year, and bigger than analysts expected. but the company thinks the bad news ends there. monsanto forecast seed sales to increase just shy of 20% in the current fiscal year. analysts think that's a reachable target because international sales should be strong and u.s. farmers will be rebounding from last summer's drought. >> in terms of impact of the drought grains stocks are low so corn and soybeans and the other seeds that they sell are going to need to be planted in great quantities so that should also deliver growth. >> reporter: werneth thinks even if the economies here and abroad worsen next year, monsanto should still reap solid profits because in good times and
as for next year, monsanto told investors seed sales should jump. diane eastabrook has details. >> reporter: analysts say monsanto's fourth quarter earnings took a hit because farmers purchased the bulk of their corn and soybean seeds earlier this year. excluding special items, monsanto lost $.44 a share in the quarter that ended august 31, double what it lost in the same quarter last year, and bigger than analysts expected. but the company thinks the bad news ends there. monsanto...
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here and the millions of brazilian farmers and brought in sued monsanto and the case was kind of dismissed i mean it seems like corporations are always coming out on top what legal recourse do we have if these states themselves are getting threatened by monsanto it was a shame that the. governor of vermont and the leaders in both in connecticut as well both refused to let the bills for labeling go through because of their fear of an. civil lawsuits are a lot of sound and we've been tracking their influence all around the world i visited thirty four countries and the big space equally capture regulatory agencies and capture government administration so in fact they captured the food and drug administration it was their former attorney michael taylor who was in charge of policy at the f.d.a. when the g.m.o. policy create was created and he said no safety testing is needed no labeling is needed companies like monsanto who told us that b.c.b.s. agent orange and d.d.t. were safe can determine on their own if g m o's are safe when put on the market without telling the f.d.a. or consumers and the
here and the millions of brazilian farmers and brought in sued monsanto and the case was kind of dismissed i mean it seems like corporations are always coming out on top what legal recourse do we have if these states themselves are getting threatened by monsanto it was a shame that the. governor of vermont and the leaders in both in connecticut as well both refused to let the bills for labeling go through because of their fear of an. civil lawsuits are a lot of sound and we've been tracking...
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now in light of occupy his first birthday happy birthday by the way occupy monsanto's groups all over the world have organized seventy five different protest against the corporation and its subsidiaries this week for the entire week the group were protesting at the home of the monsanto corporation in st louis missouri but also actions across the united states including california where voters want to. side if they will label g m o's the selection and world wide in argentina candidate germany india spain the philippines paranoid and other countries where concerns over the impacts of g m o's on the environment and human health are growing occupy monsanto's goal is to confront the agricultural and industrial complex head on and it needs to be confronted if you are concerned with this root those corporations practices you should be one thing and are not only has a saloon of toxic coverups under its belt but the corporation's aggressive tactics to ensure its domination over the entire food industry are horan it is about time that an offshoot of the occupy movement targets the corporation a
now in light of occupy his first birthday happy birthday by the way occupy monsanto's groups all over the world have organized seventy five different protest against the corporation and its subsidiaries this week for the entire week the group were protesting at the home of the monsanto corporation in st louis missouri but also actions across the united states including california where voters want to. side if they will label g m o's the selection and world wide in argentina candidate germany...
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going to talk about monsanto and their earnings. nicole: we are looking at monsanto very closely. the numbers they posted for the quarter which were basically a loss again. the stock is trading down 1.3%. the world's largest seed company. and sales of corn seeds dropped 12%. cotton sales were also off. they did well with soybeans and vegetable seed sales. the big picture did post a fourth quarter quarterly loss. as a result you are seeing this move. and the outlook was also conservative for the new year. back to you. dagen: thank you nicole. breaking news, europe's markets closing right now. ashley webster is here with more. mr. webster? ashley: hey dagen yeah the latest jobs number in the u.s. gave a brief boost to european markets today. but guess what? the uncertainty over spain continues to weigh heavy on investors. the closing bell though a mixed picture, the ftse up about a quarter of a percent. dax also moving higher by about quarter of a percent. contact in paris moving -- cac in paris moving slightly lower. reports claim an official request could come as early as this wee
going to talk about monsanto and their earnings. nicole: we are looking at monsanto very closely. the numbers they posted for the quarter which were basically a loss again. the stock is trading down 1.3%. the world's largest seed company. and sales of corn seeds dropped 12%. cotton sales were also off. they did well with soybeans and vegetable seed sales. the big picture did post a fourth quarter quarterly loss. as a result you are seeing this move. and the outlook was also conservative for the...
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top holdings there, monsanto, dupont. david: liz, let's take a look at that index you were talking about, the volatility index. when things go south, as they have, this usually goes up. this is not a stock, this is an index, but there are stocks that are linked to this if you think things are going to continue to go south. this was just down below 15 not long ago, it jumped about 13% today, it's up to almost 19 right now. again, when it got down below 15, people began to wonder, jeez, how low can this thing go? apparently, it reached its limit at that point. liz: you could argue it was dupont and 3m with earnings reports that people didn't embrace, but today's selloff theoretically started in europe as worries mounted about spain's ability to overcome its debt troubles. again you see that the ftse 100 down about a percent, you saw the dax down 14 percentage points as well. david: when the bell rings, the action begins right here. we have facebook, netflix, broadcom and panera earnings. not so much what their earnings or l
top holdings there, monsanto, dupont. david: liz, let's take a look at that index you were talking about, the volatility index. when things go south, as they have, this usually goes up. this is not a stock, this is an index, but there are stocks that are linked to this if you think things are going to continue to go south. this was just down below 15 not long ago, it jumped about 13% today, it's up to almost 19 right now. again, when it got down below 15, people began to wonder, jeez, how low...
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or the two candidates are definitely beholden to monsanto the ties go back for decades now joe a lot of people are looking at either you or gary johnson for an alternative to the two party system but of course you guys are diametrically opposed. in the platform i mean what do you say the problem is with libertarianism which given the free market just free rein to self regulate what is the main problem with that great well i want to acknowledge that we do have a lot in common with really support restore bring our civil liberties the basic concepts of freedom and that this country was founded on we will support and to the war on drugs and to visit bloated military which is trying to police the world and making us brain bankrupt as it does but we are very different as you suggest when it comes to this concept of what is government and society about i think the basic libertarian concept is sort of that each of us is an island and each man is an island unto him or her herself. and that government plea protects us from. this i think actually government is an expression of our democracy and
or the two candidates are definitely beholden to monsanto the ties go back for decades now joe a lot of people are looking at either you or gary johnson for an alternative to the two party system but of course you guys are diametrically opposed. in the platform i mean what do you say the problem is with libertarianism which given the free market just free rein to self regulate what is the main problem with that great well i want to acknowledge that we do have a lot in common with really support...
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give it to monsanto next year nobel committee i mean your track record for giving this prize to warmongers bank stars and corporate fascists is becoming quite impressive christine legarde i'm sure she'll get the nobel prize next year for having caused another one hundred million people to go into poverty and another few you know one hundred people committing suicide much because there we got some very relevant thoughts coming up from spain a little bit later colors don't close and he's going to speak to sophia on the line who bring us that and a sign of growing hardship within europe patella and students and teachers have marched across the country in protest against education cuts to as you said the been the clashes in barcelona between those both supporting opposing views independence will be talking to a post shortly now let's move on. this peace prize reaction later business as well. well the e.u. has won a million euros a nobel prize money it still needs another three and a half trillion to stay afloat more on the face of the european financial system and other stories around fifteen.
give it to monsanto next year nobel committee i mean your track record for giving this prize to warmongers bank stars and corporate fascists is becoming quite impressive christine legarde i'm sure she'll get the nobel prize next year for having caused another one hundred million people to go into poverty and another few you know one hundred people committing suicide much because there we got some very relevant thoughts coming up from spain a little bit later colors don't close and he's going to...
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throw it out which are i i am totally against the monopolistic and really really evil practices of monsanto and pioneer and syngenta and dow agro science but i am not so sure that labeling is the way to stop them i am all for transparency however i think the way to stop these guys from their monopolistic practices is to just take the money out of it we need to reform the intellectual property laws as they relate to plant patents the plant patent act dates back to the one nine hundred thirty tom i think it needs a little updating wouldn't wouldn't enforce for the sherman antitrust act to be useful to. i think that would also help i think i think the antitrust i think you see there are two things going on here actually more than two things there are food becomes a legal construct such as intellectual property laws and that needs to be reformed on the industrial level we have monopolistic practices and that needs to be busted and on the financial level we have securitization and global financial ization and that needs to be regulated we really need that three pronged approach to try to get som
throw it out which are i i am totally against the monopolistic and really really evil practices of monsanto and pioneer and syngenta and dow agro science but i am not so sure that labeling is the way to stop them i am all for transparency however i think the way to stop these guys from their monopolistic practices is to just take the money out of it we need to reform the intellectual property laws as they relate to plant patents the plant patent act dates back to the one nine hundred thirty tom...
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give it to monsanto next year nobel committee i mean your track record for giving this prize to warmongers bank stars and corporate fascist is becoming quite impressive christine legarde i'm sure she'll get the nobel prize next year for having caused another one hundred million people to go into poverty and another few you know one hundred people committing suicide. well and in another sign of growing hardship within europe italian students and teachers have gathered for nationwide protests there are cuts to education spending which have already been imposed by the government ahead of prime minister mario monti their fears to the more belt tightening is to come thousands of people of much to ninety cities across its elite. internationally verstraete author james rogers says the e.u. may have got the prize for bringing nations together but it could all actually fall apart. i assure you next week or next month when people are out rioting in the streets again in parts of europe they're not going to care about this stuff. nobody's going to remember it except whoever gets the check but the chec
give it to monsanto next year nobel committee i mean your track record for giving this prize to warmongers bank stars and corporate fascist is becoming quite impressive christine legarde i'm sure she'll get the nobel prize next year for having caused another one hundred million people to go into poverty and another few you know one hundred people committing suicide. well and in another sign of growing hardship within europe italian students and teachers have gathered for nationwide protests...
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give it to monsanto next year nobel committee i mean your track record for giving this prize to warmongers bank stars and corporate fascists is becoming quite impressive christine lagarde i'm sure she'll get the nobel prize next year for having caused another one hundred million people to go into poverty and another few you know one hundred people committing suicide the peace prize was conceived by alfred nobel to foster fraternity between nations but as you can reports some recent winners have done more to fuel conflicts around the world than to comment. this is an on the nobel peace prize is often politically motivated for a simple reason it's mostly about war and peace and we know that it's those with power who can wage or stop wars but where there is politics there is room for argument here we have the nobel peace prize laureates from the last ten twelve years let's try and bring up some of those arguments kofi annan served as the you want to secretary general from one thousand nine hundred seven to do thousand and six while in office is stood by the u.s. and supported the nato bombing
give it to monsanto next year nobel committee i mean your track record for giving this prize to warmongers bank stars and corporate fascists is becoming quite impressive christine lagarde i'm sure she'll get the nobel prize next year for having caused another one hundred million people to go into poverty and another few you know one hundred people committing suicide the peace prize was conceived by alfred nobel to foster fraternity between nations but as you can reports some recent winners have...
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monsanto donated sixty tons of corn and vegetable hybrid seeds now these seeds were there genetically modified seeds and asked the haitian farmers found out about it and thousand of them demonstrated in their one of the seed destroyed when saw it was trying to enter do genetically. modified seeds into the the biosphere of haiti and they did this under the guise of sending for the earlier way it was pretty insidious and the people found out about it and they're trying to prevent. g.m.o. seeds from coming into the country. it is amazing when people hear about you know and very poor countries people actually burning or are protesting food and scenes and you know is very interesting and i had no idea that about one santa trying to profit i'm not surprised though i wanted to go into lines disease peer it's an emerging emerging epidemic a lot of people i know have been diagnosed with line is but as your book covers you know lines is growing exponentially the new cases of lymes in disease occur each year at a rate ten times higher than that of aids and the west nile virus combined so what's
monsanto donated sixty tons of corn and vegetable hybrid seeds now these seeds were there genetically modified seeds and asked the haitian farmers found out about it and thousand of them demonstrated in their one of the seed destroyed when saw it was trying to enter do genetically. modified seeds into the the biosphere of haiti and they did this under the guise of sending for the earlier way it was pretty insidious and the people found out about it and they're trying to prevent. g.m.o. seeds...
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about food yeah there's been something special about food mom so moving along genetically modified corn monsanto genetically modified rice what how does the g.m.o. business fit into all this well as as i was on the trail of trying to figure out why almost a billion people are hungry on earth i heard a lot of murmurings from scientific institutions genetically modified organisms can help feed the world and so i said all right let's take a look at it and i spent about a year traveling from one genetic modification laboratory to another i found one woman whose life's goal was to create the square tomato so that you can get more in the box i'm i met another woman dr pamela ronald out at u.c. davis she had actually created a rice through the methods of genetic alteration that was resistant to the number one asian rice blight something called xanth ammonia is a potentially. hunger saving rice now those are two very different things a square tomato and a blight resistant rice i think that we have to be careful when we lump all science together in one barrel and throw it out i had i am totally against t
about food yeah there's been something special about food mom so moving along genetically modified corn monsanto genetically modified rice what how does the g.m.o. business fit into all this well as as i was on the trail of trying to figure out why almost a billion people are hungry on earth i heard a lot of murmurings from scientific institutions genetically modified organisms can help feed the world and so i said all right let's take a look at it and i spent about a year traveling from one...
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i like monsanto here. i think they said really great things about corn. if you don't want monsanto go with corn. >>> next trade gold prices hit a new 2012 high on monday and up 10% in the past three months. is now the time to take profits. let's bring in founder and ceo of the management. is this a technical call on your part? >> there are three reasons why i sold half of my gold position. you have to book profits. in the wake of chicago fed president charles evans extremely dubbish comments we saw it hit the high. only went up $3. that was disappointing. most importantly i am seeing the presidential debate tonight. one of three debates. if mitt romney can land a single punch you will see gold go lower. i'm looking to buy it back. >> you didn't mention the fact that crude got crushed today. there goes the inflation case in the eyes of a lot. that has to make it consider to get rid of the second half of your position. >> not necessarily. there is a lot of waves over there with iran. i don't foresee a regime change. i'm focused on the presidential debate to
i like monsanto here. i think they said really great things about corn. if you don't want monsanto go with corn. >>> next trade gold prices hit a new 2012 high on monday and up 10% in the past three months. is now the time to take profits. let's bring in founder and ceo of the management. is this a technical call on your part? >> there are three reasons why i sold half of my gold position. you have to book profits. in the wake of chicago fed president charles evans extremely...
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but we are going to see about 35 million dollars spent to fight the likes of monsanto and other corporations against it. >> so you both touched on it when you were answering that question, the role of government and what is appropriate and i am curious more of a general question, starting with you mr. leno. what do you think that the government should do and when should the government step aside? >> certainly. >> one of the most important roles of government, and for state government is to provide public safety and i think that goes beyond just the police and fire protection, but also to make sure that we keep our air safe. that we keep our water clean and drinkable, which is not the case in many parts of the state right now. that we make sure that our food is safe as well. and so, that is where regulation does come in. there is also, when you ask where the government should step aside, we work on a bill this past year which reforms the regulations for permitting of solar installations for residents and commercial properties. this impedes the expansion of a great industry that is employing m
but we are going to see about 35 million dollars spent to fight the likes of monsanto and other corporations against it. >> so you both touched on it when you were answering that question, the role of government and what is appropriate and i am curious more of a general question, starting with you mr. leno. what do you think that the government should do and when should the government step aside? >> certainly. >> one of the most important roles of government, and for state...
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and sold by american chemical companies including dow monsanto and diamond shamrock . at that time vietnam was divided into northern south the us supported the government of south vietnam and military intervention intensified after nine hundred sixty five. but the us made strong resistance from guerrilla forces who used dense jungle as their base of operations. defoliant spraying was begun in an effort to deny coverage to the guerrillas by eliminating the jungle falling which. as the war escalated the spraying of deval and increased dramatically and much of the land in south vietnam was contaminated and left barren. the defoliant known as agent orange was made from the same chemical substances as herbicides used in the us but it was twenty five times more potent. agent orange also contained dioxin the most toxic chemical ever produced. dioxin remains in the environment for many decades and causes a variety of health problems. several million vietnamese and american soldiers who fought in vietnam were affected by agent orange. their children and grandchildren continue t
and sold by american chemical companies including dow monsanto and diamond shamrock . at that time vietnam was divided into northern south the us supported the government of south vietnam and military intervention intensified after nine hundred sixty five. but the us made strong resistance from guerrilla forces who used dense jungle as their base of operations. defoliant spraying was begun in an effort to deny coverage to the guerrillas by eliminating the jungle falling which. as the war...
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on the other side corporations have contributed $35 million to fight prop 37 with biotech giant monsanto leading the way. >> i'm a worried grocer. >> reporter: ray martinez said labelling would be a costly burden for grocers. >> it's a nightmare. every shipment we get, every product, every time, we need to keep records, written records of that. >> reporter: the vast majority of corn and soy beans grown in this country come from genetically modified seeds engineered in a lab to resist insects and pesticides. those crops are then used in a huge variety of processed food from cereals to soda. prop 37 would inform shoppers those products contain gmo. the food giants claim the labels will make consumers think there's something wrong with food. the pro labelling side insist as growing number of studies are lanking ge he in if i cally modified foods to growing health risks. >> americans have a right to know what's in their food. and corporations don't have a right to hide that information. >> reporter: polls show the measure is likely to pass and hopefully a start of a national trend. >>> the 9
on the other side corporations have contributed $35 million to fight prop 37 with biotech giant monsanto leading the way. >> i'm a worried grocer. >> reporter: ray martinez said labelling would be a costly burden for grocers. >> it's a nightmare. every shipment we get, every product, every time, we need to keep records, written records of that. >> reporter: the vast majority of corn and soy beans grown in this country come from genetically modified seeds engineered in a...
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people tend to be suspicious of m monsanto, big companies that are behind this, that don't necessarily trust the fda, they don't necessarily trust bio technology, where some people in this feels biotechnology is going to be too high in so places. if you have to label something just for california, it's going te be pretty mplicated pretty quickly. >> they aren't asking that the products be made differently, they're just asking to let people know. >> that's a very good point. what that means is you can't have something labeled just for california. >> i've heard, though, that there's some thought that rather than have to break it, some gmo products in some of their foods and that cost will evtually get paid off to skurmds. >> you could be surprised, makes no difference at all. it could be you laperred. in that scenario, they would want you to reformulate. and he's with organics or non h gmo, it could lead to divorce. pretty much die verge he not is you're simply changing a label, 2 thousands. what do you gentlemecally. are not to efficiencies in production. genetic modificatn has been don
people tend to be suspicious of m monsanto, big companies that are behind this, that don't necessarily trust the fda, they don't necessarily trust bio technology, where some people in this feels biotechnology is going to be too high in so places. if you have to label something just for california, it's going te be pretty mplicated pretty quickly. >> they aren't asking that the products be made differently, they're just asking to let people know. >> that's a very good point. what...
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two biggest producer of genetically modified foods are monsanto and dupont. why would they resist informing consumers about what they are eating when 61 other nations, including china and india, already label these products? >> well, that's a fair question, martin. it's a really fair question. i mean, at the end of the day all we're talking about here is a label. one can only assume that for monsanto and dupont they simply don't want consumers to know what's in their food, which quite frankly, is a stunning indictment of their credibility. >> why do they not want to know, tom? why do they not want us to know, todd? >> they're fearful, i think, that if consumers do know what's in their food, whether it's insecticides or bacteria or viruses, but we're really talking about genetically engineered ingredients, food that's altered in a laboratory, they're fearful people won't buy it. >> right. we have a republican running for president who, as you know, will say and do almost anything to win, and whoa wants the states to decide virtually everything, as i said earli
two biggest producer of genetically modified foods are monsanto and dupont. why would they resist informing consumers about what they are eating when 61 other nations, including china and india, already label these products? >> well, that's a fair question, martin. it's a really fair question. i mean, at the end of the day all we're talking about here is a label. one can only assume that for monsanto and dupont they simply don't want consumers to know what's in their food, which quite...
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medicare since the sixty's our food supply is now increasingly dominated by one private corporation monsanto that is peddling genetically modified foods that scientific tests of shown might be effective in some cases are unhealthy in lab animals but are extremely profitable there's a privatisation of parking meters in chicago and toll booths and roadways all over the nation all around us wall street transnational corporations and billionaires are buying up our comments and more and more parts of our local neighborhoods are increasingly being run on this profit motive instead of the public good motive as they used to be the endgame of all this is startlingly clear a corporate state that gives no protections to the poor or the working class the corporate state that cares little for public safety and cares a lot about profitable incarceration rates a corporate state that treats students as profit cogs in the machine a corporate state that turns a blind eye of profitable genetically modified terrors in our food supply a corporate state that exhausts our long term resources for short term profits
medicare since the sixty's our food supply is now increasingly dominated by one private corporation monsanto that is peddling genetically modified foods that scientific tests of shown might be effective in some cases are unhealthy in lab animals but are extremely profitable there's a privatisation of parking meters in chicago and toll booths and roadways all over the nation all around us wall street transnational corporations and billionaires are buying up our comments and more and more parts...
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one nine hundred sixty one were manufactured and sold by american chemical companies including down monsanto and diamond shamrock.
one nine hundred sixty one were manufactured and sold by american chemical companies including down monsanto and diamond shamrock.
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modified seed in india where farmers are killing themselves by the thousands because of companies like monsanto give it to months out till next year nobel committee i mean your track record for giving this prize to warmongers bank stars and corporate fascists is becoming quite impressive christine lagarde i'm sure she'll get the nobel prize next year for having caused another one hundred million people to go into poverty and another few you know one hundred people committing suicide. and another sign of growing hardship within europe talian students and teachers have gathered for a nationwide protest they're outraged by cuts to education spending which have already been imposed minister mario monti's elected government and there are fears that more belt tightening is to come thousands of people marched in ninety cities across italy. there are also fresh tensions in spain's kava long nowhere separatism callers are among the loudest and you protest emerged in barcelona from both supporting and opposing the regions and the pundit's. protesters squared up to police trying to attack people taking pa
modified seed in india where farmers are killing themselves by the thousands because of companies like monsanto give it to months out till next year nobel committee i mean your track record for giving this prize to warmongers bank stars and corporate fascists is becoming quite impressive christine lagarde i'm sure she'll get the nobel prize next year for having caused another one hundred million people to go into poverty and another few you know one hundred people committing suicide. and...
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have vast differences between these two parties they're both backed by the same corporations i mean monsanto goldman sachs i mean is america unique in the world in this sense it seems like other countries have representation at least a little bit in their governance is i mean with socialism or far right i mean it just seems like america is completely bizarre and i respect for a country of three hundred eighty million people right well almost all the other so-called advanced countries and indeed most countries have a parliamentary system and so right away you have the prime minister coming out of that body and they answer to it if you watch on television for example the british parliamentary sessions are great fun because there's not all that decorum that we see with the president united states or in the united states. and where they say my esteemed friend who really go after each other there's the prime minister jumping off the bench to bellow back you know it's a very very sort of an active system also because of the way that our representatives are elected in single member districts only f
have vast differences between these two parties they're both backed by the same corporations i mean monsanto goldman sachs i mean is america unique in the world in this sense it seems like other countries have representation at least a little bit in their governance is i mean with socialism or far right i mean it just seems like america is completely bizarre and i respect for a country of three hundred eighty million people right well almost all the other so-called advanced countries and indeed...